Jim Carrey Quotes

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

You might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world....you will only ever have two choices: love or fear. Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.

Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

What’s yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out.

Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.

I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.

Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself. Until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself.

I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.

I wanted to be a veterinarian for about a week of my life when I was a kid. But I found out about the whole euthanasia thing and I said, I can't commit to that, sorry!

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

Any1 who would run out to buy an assault rifle after the Newtown massacre has very little left in their body or soul worth protecting. ;^

The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.

I don't believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves.

Our love is like a red, red rose... and I am a little thorny.

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

A better you means a better universe.

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.

I'm talkin' about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talkin' about Aspen.

I don't hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.

Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.

Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it.

I've always believed that you can funnel good things toward yourself by thinking positiviely.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.